Endorsement Needed: Catastrophic Funding Shortfalls for Specific Claims Research

Your Urgent Endorsement Needed

Catastrophic Funding Shortfalls for Specific Claims Research

The National Claims Research Directors (NCRD) writes to request your urgent endorsement of our open letter to CIRNAC Minister Marc Miller on July 20, 2023. This letter calls on Canada to immediately address an $18.5 million shortfall in annual research funding for specific claims in the 2023-2024 fiscal year to ensure all First Nations who applied for funding to research and develop their specific claims are able to continue their crucial work.

Canada has a legal obligation under the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to ensure all First Nations have fair and timely access to justice for the redress of their historical claims.

Instructions and Tools

To assist you, we have provided the following tools:

Template endorsement wording that can be pasted into an email or onto your letterhead. We recommend you use the following subject line:
Urgent - [your First Nation] fully endorses the National Claims Research Directors July 20, 2023 letter to you calling on Canada to provide specific claims research funding to all First Nations claimants to ensure full and fair access to justice
A copy of the NCRD’s open letter:
File titled “2023-07-20 NCRD Open Letter to Minister Miller Re Research Funding Shortfalls”
We suggest emailing your letter to the following:

If you have any questions, comments, or other materials you think we should include, please contact UBCIC Research Director and Administrative Director Jody Woods: ([email protected]).

Endorsement Needed: Catastrophic Funding Shortfalls for Specific Claims Research

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